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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is a war.

— John Thomas Flynn

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Fascism is a leftist product—a corrupt and diseased offshoot of leftist agitation.

As We Go Marching (1944)

It can never be done in a society of free men where criticism cannot be silenced and where compliance cannot be enforced.

The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution (1949)

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people. It is an assertion of stark, bold aggression.

As We Go Marching (1944)

Military men, when confronted with the mutterings of disaffected taxpayers, always pointed out how good these government military expenditures were for business.

As We Go Marching (1944)

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship. Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

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